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Happyend
Best friends Yuta and Kou are on the brink of graduating from high school in a near-future Tokyo where the threat of a catastrophic earthquake casts a shadow over daily life.
The Courageous
The Courageous
Three children learn to take care of one another during their mother's absences, as she tries to find a better way of living.
Harvest
Harvest
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.
U Are The Universe
U Are The Universe
In the distant future, a space trucker from Khmelnytskyi is trying to get rid of over three billion tons of waste. When he hears from a woman on a distant space station, he becomes determined to reach her.
April
April
After a newborn dies during delivery, the morals and professionalism of an ob-gyn, Nina, come under scrutiny amid rumors that she performs illegal abortions for those in need.
The Return
The Return
Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca after returning from the Trojan war.
The Penguin Lessons
The Penguin Lessons
An Englishman in Uruguay adopts a penguin, smuggles it back to his home in Argentina, and gradually wakes up to the political violence going on around him.
Really Happy Someday
Really Happy Someday
Once a rising star of musical theatre, a young man has to find his voice, career and identity all over again after his transition.
On Falling
On Falling
Trapped between the confines of her workplace and the solitude of her flat-share, a Portuguese warehouse picker in Scotland seeks to resist the loneliness, alienation and ensuing small talk which begin to threaten her sense of self.
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.
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Toronto International Film Festival Features

Without words
Elín Hall on the stripped down dialogue of When The Light Breaks
Honesty and curiosity
Kate Siegel on the literary roots of horror and The Life Of Chuck
The man who picked up a penguin
Peter Cattaneo on adapting a true story in The Penguin Lessons
Bingo
David Siegel and Scott McGehee on Naomi Watts, Bing, Sigrid Nunez and The Friend
Taking the plunge as 'angel and devil'
French actor Félix Kysyl on his first lead role in Misericordia
'There is a bit of me in lots of the characters I create'
Misericordia director Guiraudie on his tale of the unexpected
Beautiful and difficult
Sandhya Suri on semi-urban outposts, moral ambiguity and Santosh
A little unpredictability
Payal Kapadia on cinematic inspirations and All We Imagine As Light
Hooked on fairy tales
Sigrid Nunez on Bing, fairy tales and the adaptation of her novel The Friend
Reflections of a cat
Gints Zilbalodis on Hayao Miyazaki, fairy tales and Latvia’s Oscar submission, Flow
'I’m still enjoying the process of talking about Julie and advocating for her silence'
Leonardo van Dijl on Belgian Oscar nominee Julie Keeps Quiet
Finding joy and creating character
Pamela Anderson and Gia Coppola on working together to craft The Last Showgirl
Art, friendship and nature
Tilda Swinton on dressing for Pedro Almodóvar, and The Room Next Door
Lord of misrule
Fernando Coimbra on drawing on Shakespeare and subversive ideas for Carnival Is Over
An epic work of art
Alessandro Nivola on Brady Corbet and The Brutalist
By book and by crook
Sophie Deraspe on bringing Shepherds to the big screen
'It's the story of my family and their coming here'
Arshile Egoyan on drawing on his mum's childhood for Before They Joined Us
Concrete ideas
Alessandro Nivola on Costantino Nivola, Le Corbusier, and The Brutalist
Audiard on a crazy musical spree in Mexico
Director on changing identity, democracy and drug cartels
At last Maddin makes mischief in Cannes
G7 satire star power for Rumours filmmaker
Arnold reveals the naked truth
Cannes award-winning director of Bird on how images spark imagination
Coppola, the fearless, has no regrets
Megalopolis director values friendship more than personal fortune
'I start working from a very intellectual perspective, but then it's a lot of intuition'
Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias on experimentation and storytelling in Pepe
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